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Learn to play the piano and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred Music. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about how to sit at the piano, fingerings, the keyboard's layout, and getting acquainted with standard musical notation. You will then move right along to playing different notes, scales, chords and songs, lesson by lesson, key by key, all while continuing to increase your ever-growing knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation. You will learn to play in an array of musical styles, including Pop, Blues, Classical, Folk, Hymns Spirituals, and Ragtime.

The online audio, video, and software provide a helpful reference for play-along and practice that can be used anywhere you have a computer or mobile device.

Be your own teacher, and let Alfred Music be your resource every step of the way.

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Contents

Title

INTRODUCTION TO PLAYING

What You Need to Teach Yourself to Play the Piano

How to Sit at the Piano

Tuning Your Instrument

How the Fingers Are Numbered

How Piano Tones Are Made. Dynamic Signs f, mf, p. Dynamic Exercise

Four Good Reasons for Playing with Curved Fingers

Preliminary Exercises

A Beneficial Hand Massage

The Keyboard

Beginning to Play

C POSITION

Right Hand C Position. Treble Clef Sign. Right Hand Warm-Up

Quarter Notes & Half Notes. Measure, Bar Line, Double Bar. ODE TO JOY

Left Hand C Position. Bass Clef Sign. Left Hand Warm-Up

The Whole Note. Repeat Sign. AURA LEE

THE GRAND STAFF

The Grand Staff. Time Signature, 4/4. Whole Rest

PLAYING C--G ON THE GRAND STAFF

FINGER "AEROBICS," No. 1

Melodic Intervals: 2nds. Slurs. SECONDS

THE SECOND STREET BAND

Melodic Intervals: 3rds. THIRDS

ROCK-ALONG. MEXICAN HAT DANCE. Quarter Rest

Melodic Intervals: 4ths. PLAY A FOURTH

RHYTHM MAN. 8va. GOOD KING WENCESLAS

Melodic Intervals: 5ths. FIFTHS

MY FIFTH. Melodic Interval Review

Harmonic Intervals: 2nds & 3rds. QUIET RIVER

Harmonic 4ths & 5ths. Tied Notes. LITTLE THINGS

JINGLE BELLS

The Sharp Sign. MONEY CAN'T BUY EV'RYTHING!

INTRODUCTION TO CHORDS

The C Major Chord

BROTHER JOHN. Half Rest. HERE'S A HAPPY SONG!

Introducing B for LH. Two Important Chords for LH---C Major, G7. MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. LARGO (from "The New World")

Introducing B for RH. C & G7 Chords for RH

MARY ANN

Time Signature, 3/4. Dotted Half Note. ROCKETS

WHAT CAN I SHARE?

Introducing A for LH. F Major Chord for LH

Warm-Up Using C, G7 & F Chords. WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN

The Damper Pedal. Broken Chords. HARP SONG

Warm-Up Using C, G7 & F Chords. BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES

Eighth Notes. SKIP TO MY LOU

Broken Chord Warm-Up. SKIP TO MY LOU

Fermata. THE GIFT TO BE SIMPLE

Introducing Dotted Quarter Notes

Crescendo. Diminuendo. ALOUETTE

EXPANDING THE 5-FINGER POSITION

Measuring 6ths

LAVENDER'S BLUE

Time Signature 2/4. KUM-BA-YAH!

LONDON BRIDGE. MICHAEL, ROW THE BOAT ASHORE

Syncopated Notes. ROCK-A MY SOUL

Moving Up & Down the Keyboard in 6ths. LONE STAR WALTZ

Staccato

Measuring 7ths & Octaves

CAFE VIENNA

BRAHMS' LULLABY. Dynamic Sign, mp

The Flat Sign. ROCK IT AWAY!

Measuring Half Steps & Whole Steps. Tetrachords

SCALES & CHORDS---THE KEY OF C MAJOR

The Major Scale. Preparation for Scale Playing. The C Major Scale

JOY TO THE WORLD. Dynamic sign, ff

More About Chords. Triads. Triads Built on the C Major Scale

COCKLES AND MUSSELS

The Primary Chords in C Major. Chord Progressions

WALKIN' DOWN THE BASSES. Changing LH Fingers on Repeated Notes

About the Blues. I'M A WINNER!

Grace Notes. BLUES CITY

RH Extended Position. ON TOP OF OLD SMOKY

THE KEY OF G MAJOR

The G Major Scale. The Key of G Major

How to Make Any Major Triad. How to Play I--V7 Progressions Beginning on Any Major Triad

THE CAN-CAN. Changing RH Fingers on Repeated Notes

How to Play I--IV Progressions Beginning on Any Major Triad. The Primary Chords in G Major